[Blindmath] Malfunctioning files containing Math Type - Please help

[Neil Soiffer]

Either IE isn't enforcing xhtml or you have MathPlayer for IE running and
it rewrites it into html because IE8 didn't support XHTML (IE8 is the
compatibility mode MathPlayer for IE must run in due to IE's dropping
support for the interfaces needed by MathPlayer for display).

You could do the same for Firefox by just renaming the file as .html
instead of the current .xhtml. The problems will still be there. My guess
is that there is an error roughly every 30 input lines, which given length
of most input lines in that document, it is probably every 2-4 pages.
However, the entire file will load because html has rules that allow it to
continue through errors, although the resulting guess as to what is meant
is not always what is desired. Hopefully the errors are infrequent enough
that they aren't too bothersome.

Neil Soiffer

On Mon, Dec 19, 2016 at 10:23 AM, Russell Solowoniuk via Blindmath <
blindmath at nfbnet.org> wrote:

> Hi Sarah,
>
> I tried opening the file in Firefox and got the same results you did. I
> then opened it in Internet Explorer 11, and it seems to read fine, even the
> math content. I'm using Jaws 18. The really strange thing is that when I
> switch to NVDA, latest version, with IE 11, all the text in the document
> reads fine, but none of the math content shows up. Do you have access to
> Jaws and IE at all?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Russell
>
> >>> Sarah Jevnikar via Blindmath <blindmath at nfbnet.org> 2016-12-18 5:10
> AM >>>
> Hi all,
> I was provided with a course textbook in xhtml format so I could read it in
> Firefox with NVDA and Math Type. Though Braille support is wonky (some
> symbols are missing), it's been a decent format. Except a few files produce
> errors like the one copied below when I open them, making them unreadable.
> " XML Parsing Error: not well-formed
> Location: file:///[the file's location on my hard drive]
> Line Number 21, Column 990:<p><b>Consistency.</d>"
> The file in question can be downloaded here:
> https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/12727315/Intro%20App%20C3.xhtml
> Two other files have this same error, but different line and column
> numbers.
> Is there a way that I can fix this?
> Thank you,
> Sarah
>
>
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